… the expense of doing well what it is best suited to do. –Neil Postman, Teaching as a Conserving Activity (1979), p. …
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School as a well-financed garbage dump (Postman)
… can be expected except the unsweet odor of failure. –Neil Postman, Teaching as a Conserving Activity (1979), p. …
Information consumption (Postman)
… the flow of new information coming fast behind it. –Neil Postman, Teaching as a Conserving Activity (1979), p. …
May 27th, 2006 | Published in Consumerism, Culture, Quotes, Technology, Television
An all-instant society (Postman)
… Constancy is one of the main teachings of civilization. –Neil Postman, Teaching as a Conserving Activity (1979), p. …
May 25th, 2006 | Published in Community, Consumerism, Culture, Life, Quotes
The word is a small universe of ideas (Postman)
… is not just an idea. It is a small universe of ideas. –Neil Postman, Teaching as a Conserving Activity (1979), p. …
Television is hostile to conceptual, segmented, linear modes of expression (Postman)
… both writing and speech must lose some of their power. –Neil Postman, Teaching as a Conserving Activity (1979), p. …
May 20th, 2006 | Published in Culture, Education, Quotes, Television
Television threatens hierarchy (Postman)
… their role in the drama and, indeed, justify that role. –Neil Postman, Teaching as a Conserving Activity (1979), p. …
May 19th, 2006 | Published in Culture, Quotes, Technology, Television
Image obliterates ideas and issues (Postman)
… of TV leads to the dominance of personality. –Neil Postman, Teaching as a Conserving Activity (1979), p. …
May 17th, 2006 | Published in Culture, Quotes, Technology, Television